The Four Worlds

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The Four Worlds2

T'was a land better then your own,3

It was the board of the Game of Thrones,4

A Song of Ice and Fire it sings,5

It was a tale of the Clash of Kings,6

T'was was a time when only three dragons roared.7

It was a time of the Storm of Swords.8

Chapter I9

The Council of the Worlds 10

The table that was a hazel sort of burnt hue stood in the center of the crowd of twenty about it.11

The talk began.12

Elrond and Harkle Harpell began at the same moment.13

"We..."14

"Er...DoUrden.."15

Drizzt DoUrden, the dark elf, looked up at Harkle with question in his expression.16

"Weirdo?" asked Regis.17

"You called me?" asked Drizzt.18

"Well, you take most near all the part in the plan." Harkle stuttered.19

Elrond was angered from this for he was not told of no plan and he wished to know all, except maybe a birthday surprise once in a thousand years.20

"I do not know this!" he demanded to Harkle.21

Harkle's tongue fumbled in his mouth so Elrond allowed himself a chortle.22

"As I intended to say, we are..."23

"What of me? Did not Harkle not mention a word of me?" asked Drizzt.24

"I...did, you, ofcourse, Yes, I did say a word of you?cyour last name that is."25

Elrond allowed his hand to lash in Harkles face for a bruising slap.26

"If this meeting were for thee to rule then away would be I."27

He said, and then gathered another set of words in his mind to say.28

"We are here gathered, yea hideous creatures of every race, elf, dwarf and human and halfling and troll and giant and gnome and knoll and drow and?"29

His elvish eyes somehow caught sight of a certain women near the farthest end of the table.30

"FIEND!!" he screamed, then covered his eyes in horror. 31

Brienne drew her sword and with an innocent voice said, "I am not a fiend, and I'll kill anyone who says I am!"32

"Well you better begin with me for I say yea are and now I wish to die to rid me of the nightmare of seeing you!" He crawled under the table.33

Harkle giggled and said, "We are here gathered for a cause, one most dire at the time..."34

"The extinction of the Direwolves!" said Arya Stark, she was both girl and boy, human and animal, noble and scoundrel. Arya and Horseface.35

"No. Not so." replied Harkle.36

"The Ring!" said Gollum, a smile creeped to his face and his eyes widened.37

"My Ring! The Ring of Erreth Akbe!" exclaimed Tenar of Gont.38

Elrond at last returned to his thin feet.39

"No." he stated flatly.40

"More dire, more damnable. This incident could cause such destruction..."41

"The Crystal Shard!" announced Regis.42

"Silence yea quarter witted cretins!" shouted Gandalf, at last speaking.43

"Last night, ten evils created an alliance, an alliance of swords, magicks, and artifacts."44

Harkle was most gladdened at being able to steal that statement from Elrond, a chance in an elf?fs life time.45

All about the table screamed in shock.46

"No!"47

"Noo!!"48

"Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"49

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"50

Several denials were said, and then the speaking resumed.51

"Ten evil yea say? Say then by name me thinks!" bawled Bruenor.52

He smiled at his own wit and eloquence. Every one else smiled too.53

"Sauron and the undestroyed Ring."54

One smile faded.55

"You failed it seems, Frodo."56

Gollum smiled widest now.57

Drizzt patted Frodo on the head and related to him how laborious the task was to destroy the Shard, and how he had succeeded in it.58

"Akar Kessel and the undestroyed Crystal Shard."59

Drizzt's was the second smile to fade.60

"Kossil and the undestroyed gods of the Tombs of Atuan."61

Tenar shrieked and her gray hair flew in the air.62

Suddenly the rooms atmosphere began to change, the words that came form Harkles mouth came like promises of death.63

Like drums of war.64

"Joffrey and his unkilled self!"65

Arya and the Queen of Thorns blew into vaults of tears.66

Then, the words came rapidly.67

"Erttu, Saruman, The Mountain, Matron Malice, Shellum, Cerssei."68

Gollum screamed and held his hand to his heart, dearly.69

Drizzt paled over the thought of confronting his mother.70

"At least there be only ten of them, against twenty of us!" declared Regis.71

"And a fine twenty we are too!" yelled Elrond.72

"Gollum, Frodo, Regis and Arya! OUT!"73

"Yet, Why master Elrond?" asked Frodo Baggins.74

"Yea four are the most useless. A father who will not fight against his daughter, two hobbits who failed in growing, and one stupid little..."75

He paused and smiled.76

"Stark."77

He smiled again, and this one lasted.78

"You shall stay Arya Stark, for ransom to ensure that your brother and mother will support us with arms."79

Arya's face went purple. "No!"80

Elrond ignored that and scanned the rest of the sixteen.81

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Drizzt DoUrden, a skilled warrior, perhaps the best ever. Gandalf the Gray, wizard, useful at times. Tenar of Gont, near undesirably useless, but her position as the once High Priestess and being the white lady and wife of the ex-arch mage would make her a handsome ransom indeed.83

Bruenor Battlehammer, useless too, but a valuable hostage too.84

The Queen of Thorns, a Tyrell of Westeros, a hostage perhaps, she also owns a giant army of rose clad knights.85

Brienne of Tarth, a warrior, ugly and noble, hostage who can fight.86

Me, splendid elf, best of his kind and most fair, the leader of here.87

Harkle Harpell, stupid and ill witted, I should exclude him for his unintelligence, but we may use him for bait and the like.88

The Hound, ugly as the others, a warrior yet.89

Aragorn, the King of Gondor, hostage and nothing else.90

Tehanu, scarred and speaks with Dragons, we will have to exclude her.91

Legolas, elf prince, useful he was as part of the Fellowship of the Ring and the destroying of the second Ring.92

Danica, wife of Arch Priest Catterly, warrior and valuable hostage.93

Jon Snow, bastard and blackbrother...not a hostage!94

The count was done and Elrond sighed with agitation.95

They're all hostages!!96

"We are not at all too novice-like to confront these foes though." Said Drizzt DoUrden.97

"Mine own Mother was once killed by a whip, Saruman by an arrow, and Joffrey by a pie!"98

"The Tears of Lys you DOLT!" said the Queen of Thorns.99

"Then," began Elrond.100

"Must I tell you of the others that wish to join their Alliance??"101

Drizzt nodded eagerly.102

It began.103

"Ellefain, undead and with her old spells, Millesandre, red and with Stannis, Gorbag and Shagrat, accompanied with an orcish host. Denethor. Then, there is..."104

Elrond wiped a bucket of sweat from his eyebrows.105

"There are the foes that might not join the Alliance but are foes in their own ways, Entreri, Jaime and Prince Oberyn...all undead!!"106

"All undead..." echoed Drizzt, every evil they had every destroyed, every artifact it had all returned at once, and gathered into an alliance.107

All of them.108